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As part of the Orkney International Science Festival 2018 a group of musicians from St Andrews conducted a min-tour of Orkney. Three events were performed in very different settings, namely the Orkney Brewery, The Kirwall Grammer School Theatre and the St Magnus...

On Saturday 2 June, Music Planet hosted "Xerxes in the Garden", a study day at the St Andrews Botanic Garden featuring speakers from the University of St Andrews and members of the Byre Opera production team of Handel's Xerxes exploring human interactions...

The St Andrews Chorus's performance of Haydn's The Seasons on 28 April will be preceded by 'A Taste of the Seasons', a special pre-concert dinner at the Byre Theatre. Read on to find out more about the connections between Hadyn's music and the relationship...

What parallels can you draw between the way a conductor manages an orchestra and the way humans often try to manage ecosystems? The first Symphonic Nature concert featured a preconcert discussion that explored that very question. Read below to find out...

The St Andrews Chamber Orchestra is putting on a series of three concerts featuring Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony alongside Sibelius' Third Symphony and Mendelssohn's The Hebrides. This thought-provoking concert programme invites the audience to consider...

For the fourth year running, the Music Centre is excited to present New Music Week, a weeklong celebration of musical exploration, inspiration and innovation. 2018's artists in residence are James Turnbull (oboe), Eddy Hackett (percussion) and Emily...

Experience Vivaldi like never before with this recording of the Heisenberg Ensemble's performance of The Four Seasons, complete with cutting-edge research from the School of Earth and Environmental Science into how human-accelerated climate change is affecting the...

Click on the image to view the opening address by Dr Tony Prave Sunday night saw a highly successful concert with stellar (quite literally for “Mars”) performance from the Heisenberg Ensemble. The concert kicked off with 4.6Billion years of Earth history compressed...